Games like About a Boy
If About a Boy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Polda 5.5, Cook For Love and Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About About a Boy: “About a Boy” immerses players in a narrative-driven journey set in a future city devoid of humanity as we know it. Through the eyes of Miro, a boy with the unique ability to perceive people based on their animal temperaments, players embark on a puzzle point-and-click adventure.
Players who liked About a Boy also play
Steam players who put hours into About a Boy also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Polda 5.5
WHY THIS
Top pick for About a Boy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with About a Boy.
Starověký Egypt byl vyspělou civilizací, která měla potenciál trvat navždy. Pak se do toho ovšem vložil náš neohrožený detektiv Pankrác. Ten na konci minulého dílu zůstal v Egyptě a stal se faraonem. Zjistítěte s námi co tam vyváděl a jak se vlasntě vrátil zpátky do Lupan.
Cook For Love
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for About a Boy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with About a Boy.
Win the hearts of Parisians with your cooking, discover delicious recipes, and become a chef worthy of working onboard the Orient Express.
Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for About a Boy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with About a Boy.
Adapted from the bestselling children’s book series Pierre The Maze Detective, play as Pierre in this adventure/puzzle game and recover the stolen Maze Stone. Journey through breathtakingly hand-drawn illustrations, meet eccentric characters, and solve puzzles to save Opera City!
Kittens and Yarn
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for About a Boy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with About a Boy.
Move the pieces of place and untangle the wool yarn for these cute kittens.
Royal Legends: Marshes Curse Collector's Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for About a Boy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with About a Boy.
The people of Libertyville are in danger! Evil and witchcraft are gaining strength to carry out an insidious plan to take over the city. Help the authorities stop the Swamp Witch and save innocent people!
Theofil
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for About a Boy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with About a Boy.
Theofil is an action arcade game in which you'll guide a hooded hero wearing an ancient robe. Your weapon is a magical wooden staff that brave Theofil uses to destroy his enemies. His abilities will help you fight against dangerous enemies.
BOULDER DASH 40th Anniversary
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for About a Boy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with About a Boy.
BOULDER DASH® 40th Anniversary – A legend returns! Immerse yourself in 40 years of video game history and experience the classic BOULDER DASH® in an epic anniversary edition!
I commissioned some bees 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for About a Boy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with About a Boy.
I paid 10 more artists to hide bees in their artwork. Can you find them all? Warning: Relaxing.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below About a Boy at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under About a Boy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with About a Boy.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under About a Boy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with About a Boy.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under About a Boy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with About a Boy.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under About a Boy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with About a Boy.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under About a Boy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with About a Boy.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under About a Boy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with About a Boy.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under About a Boy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with About a Boy.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under About a Boy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with About a Boy.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with About a Boy.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with About a Boy.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with About a Boy.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with About a Boy.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with About a Boy.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with About a Boy.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Frequently asked about About a Boy
- How much does About a Boy cost?
- About a Boy is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to About a Boy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside About a Boy are Polda 5.5, Cook For Love, Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective.
- Who developed About a Boy?
- About a Boy was developed by Return 0 Game Studio and published by P.R.A.R.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on About a Boy.
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